What's the spiciest thing you've ever eaten?
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smiller said:
My spiciest? Mrs M made a chili a couple of years ago with one scotch bonnet and a teaspoon of some American company's chili sauce "Who Dares Burns" by "Hotheadz". It was inedible, and for the next couple of months whenever we did a chili, we used a portion of the "Hotheadz" chili to spice the normal sauce.
Yeesh!
I use the Who Dares Burns sauce and its ok if you dont use to much (and don't get it on your skin). It was probably the scotch bonnet that did for you.Yeesh!
it'll be the sauce, not the scotch bonnet. Ive made quite a few lovely dishes with habaneros / scotch bonnets and, while very hot, they have a really good flavour.
Daves insanity, who dares burns and their ilk of sauces are really just pure heat though, and a full teaspoon is quite a lot for two people.
Daves insanity, who dares burns and their ilk of sauces are really just pure heat though, and a full teaspoon is quite a lot for two people.
Edited by Wadeski on Sunday 20th January 02:58
British Curry might have some macho firey image, but real curry should be taste and not fire.
The spiciest things that I have ever eaten suprised me,
1. Thai instant noodles, I didnt even add the option packet of extra chilli, these things gave me running nose, and full-on sweat
2. Japanese chilli rings. They are like onion rings (crisps not real onion rings) but they are pink/red and brutal, normally I eat something spicy, its ok, then a few seconds later it hurts - these were different, as soon as it touched my tongue, it hurt.
although i am capable of eating hot dishes, i have grown out of it, i prefer a combination of a few different chillis that actually taste good, rather than as much of one single chilli just to prove than i am a man. does not actually taste good
The spiciest things that I have ever eaten suprised me,
1. Thai instant noodles, I didnt even add the option packet of extra chilli, these things gave me running nose, and full-on sweat
2. Japanese chilli rings. They are like onion rings (crisps not real onion rings) but they are pink/red and brutal, normally I eat something spicy, its ok, then a few seconds later it hurts - these were different, as soon as it touched my tongue, it hurt.
although i am capable of eating hot dishes, i have grown out of it, i prefer a combination of a few different chillis that actually taste good, rather than as much of one single chilli just to prove than i am a man. does not actually taste good
Cotty said:
smiller said:
My spiciest? Mrs M made a chili a couple of years ago with one scotch bonnet and a teaspoon of some American company's chili sauce "Who Dares Burns" by "Hotheadz". It was inedible, and for the next couple of months whenever we did a chili, we used a portion of the "Hotheadz" chili to spice the normal sauce.
Yeesh!
I use the Who Dares Burns sauce and its ok if you dont use to much (and don't get it on your skin). It was probably the scotch bonnet that did for you.Yeesh!
t that may be living in it.
Romanymagic said:
Cotty said:
smiller said:
My spiciest? Mrs M made a chili a couple of years ago with one scotch bonnet and a teaspoon of some American company's chili sauce "Who Dares Burns" by "Hotheadz". It was inedible, and for the next couple of months whenever we did a chili, we used a portion of the "Hotheadz" chili to spice the normal sauce.
Yeesh!
I use the Who Dares Burns sauce and its ok if you dont use to much (and don't get it on your skin). It was probably the scotch bonnet that did for you.Yeesh!
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A good curry is about the spicing, not the hotness. The stuff you get in regular curries is not at all authentic, they seem to spice it up for groups of macho lads. As Jas said, most of them are Pakistani or Bangladeshi owned. Even the Indian owned ones (few in London, Leicester and Brum) don't really replicate anything like a traditional home cooked curry.
As far as heat goes, we had potato 'shak' which is basically gujrati for something like a bombay potato with a bit more sauce, at somebodies house in some village in India. They said they had made it milder for us, but I have never tasted something so hot. We've all done silly stuff with chilli sauce/ Tobassco etc, this was on another level. Worst thing was we only had a limited amount of mineral water (we didn't forsee this emergency and only had enough for normal drinking) and couldn't drink the local water or chas (lassee which has been thinned with water.) In the end I had to get our driver to take me to the nearest shop about a ten minute drive away so I could buy some more water for the whole family!
As far as heat goes, we had potato 'shak' which is basically gujrati for something like a bombay potato with a bit more sauce, at somebodies house in some village in India. They said they had made it milder for us, but I have never tasted something so hot. We've all done silly stuff with chilli sauce/ Tobassco etc, this was on another level. Worst thing was we only had a limited amount of mineral water (we didn't forsee this emergency and only had enough for normal drinking) and couldn't drink the local water or chas (lassee which has been thinned with water.) In the end I had to get our driver to take me to the nearest shop about a ten minute drive away so I could buy some more water for the whole family!
We had some Daves Insanity Sauce in our house. We binned it in the end due to it mostly being used for practical jokes which we could see getting dangerous. The last straw was when I managed to stitch myself up. Having had pizza for dinner one night, there was a slice left. Just before a bunch of us left for the pub I sneakily doused the last slice with insanity sauce. The pizza was a hot & spicy one anyway, so the my plan was that one of us would get home from the pub with a beer hunger & grab the bit of pizza - they wouldn't realise what they'd done til it was too late. Ha ha ha ha. It would be hilarious as it always is. Except the power of beer caused it to slip my mind & I ate it.
H_Kan said:
A good curry is about the spicing, not the hotness. The stuff you get in regular curries is not at all authentic, they seem to spice it up for groups of macho lads. As Jas said, most of them are Pakistani or Bangladeshi owned. Even the Indian owned ones (few in London, Leicester and Brum) don't really replicate anything like a traditional home cooked curry.
As far as heat goes, we had potato 'shak' which is basically gujrati for something like a bombay potato with a bit more sauce, at somebodies house in some village in India. They said they had made it milder for us, but I have never tasted something so hot. We've all done silly stuff with chilli sauce/ Tobassco etc, this was on another level. Worst thing was we only had a limited amount of mineral water (we didn't forsee this emergency and only had enough for normal drinking) and couldn't drink the local water or chas (lassee which has been thinned with water.) In the end I had to get our driver to take me to the nearest shop about a ten minute drive away so I could buy some more water for the whole family!
I had a couple of gorgeous vindaloos in Goa recently. Absolutely fantastic - hot, but the flavours were amazing. I don't and will continue not to bother eating them here as they're a waste of time!As far as heat goes, we had potato 'shak' which is basically gujrati for something like a bombay potato with a bit more sauce, at somebodies house in some village in India. They said they had made it milder for us, but I have never tasted something so hot. We've all done silly stuff with chilli sauce/ Tobassco etc, this was on another level. Worst thing was we only had a limited amount of mineral water (we didn't forsee this emergency and only had enough for normal drinking) and couldn't drink the local water or chas (lassee which has been thinned with water.) In the end I had to get our driver to take me to the nearest shop about a ten minute drive away so I could buy some more water for the whole family!
Cotty said:
scruffy you are a nutta if you actually use that stuff
Having done the practical jokes in the pub (very small spot on the end of a toothpick - go on bet you can't - grown men reduced to crying etc...), it actually is a good ingredient (used very sparingly) - needless to say, the Blair's stuff
hotheadz website said:
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is unopened. BLAIR IS FEATURED IN THE 2007 Guinness Book of world Records !!!!!! .....16 million Pure Capsaicin...The King Of all Spice!!!!- Find out why Blair's has received WORLDWIDE media attention.
We have only a couple of these available so first come first served. You will need to e-mail a waiver for insurance purposes as THIS IS NOT A FOOD PRODUCT!
Price: £299.00
...as is one of my bottles of Middleton Irish Whisky (untill i get more...)
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just tend to use 4-6 birdseye chillis frozen and use scissors to cut them up, tasted pretty good, but a-hole sort of did not like them very much and might reduce the dose, sort of blew out all over the place, but luckily was sitting in the right place. Felt quite hot....
Used to think the chilli powder in noodles was really hot
wont go for anything measured on scales, they are just too hot
Used to think the chilli powder in noodles was really hot
wont go for anything measured on scales, they are just too hot
Scraggles said:
just tend to use 4-6 birdseye chillis frozen and use scissors to cut them up, tasted pretty good, but a-hole sort of did not like them very much and might reduce the dose, sort of blew out all over the place, but luckily was sitting in the right place. Felt quite hot....
Used to think the chilli powder in noodles was really hot
[b]wont go for anything measured on scales[b], they are just too hot
Birds Eye chilis are rated 100,000 ~ 225,000 on the Scoville scale and they are a reasonably hot chili. Try scraping out the seeds next timeUsed to think the chilli powder in noodles was really hot
[b]wont go for anything measured on scales[b], they are just too hot
this is a new batch, the chinese shop had some new types in, tend to not bother with the seed scraping, gives a different sort of effect, but certainly scrape some seeds to regrow probalby just use a red and green chilli instead of 2 of each
funny thing I saw as a kid, was some skinheads stealing all the birds eyes from a "stupid" pakistani as they called him, he appeared shocked that someone would eat that many
apparently they had very sore bottoms for a good week
probalby just use a red and green chilli instead of 2 of each funny thing I saw as a kid, was some skinheads stealing all the birds eyes from a "stupid" pakistani as they called him, he appeared shocked that someone would eat that many
apparently they had very sore bottoms for a good week
Many ... many years ago, a friend of mine, famous for his curry eating prowess was stitched up by our local curry house (deservedly so really).
We were regulars. Four to six times a week, often twice on a Friday - a quicky early doors on the way home from work, a skin full of beer then a full-on feast at 11 p.m. - Looking back a flipping nightmare bunch really. We'd all enjoy a good spicy curry; madras, vindaloo, meat Bengalore, prawn phal, etc. - the usual macho-thing. Anyhoo - this guy went in one night full of the usual bravado; "Hottest you can provide! Do your worst!"
It must've taken him two hours to eat this ridiculously hot phal - sweat was pouring from his brow but he wouldn't be defeated! The staff applauded as he finished and none of us paid that night. Result!
Except ... He was suffering. He got home and went to bed. He was restless. His girlfriend was worried about him as he was still sweating like a very sweaty thing. He must've fallen asleep though because he woke up in the early hours badly, I mean BADLY needing the loo. Needless to say he didn't make it.
He 'let go' while still in bed - which was a write-off! The insides of his thighs were burnt. His girlfriend's back was burnt. They both (claim) to have blistered their skin with the 'unspent alkaline' which exploded from his arse.
Now whether this story has been exaggerated, glorified and/or adulterated over the years, those of us that tasted that curry, that night, still have nightmares. It was the hottest thing in the whole world.
Ever!
Every time we went back to that curry house for months afterwards the staff would point out my friend to other customers and recount the tale of the inedible meal that he ate. I think just taking the mickey out of the mad English - but they definitely genuinely enjoyed telling the tale.
We were regulars. Four to six times a week, often twice on a Friday - a quicky early doors on the way home from work, a skin full of beer then a full-on feast at 11 p.m. - Looking back a flipping nightmare bunch really. We'd all enjoy a good spicy curry; madras, vindaloo, meat Bengalore, prawn phal, etc. - the usual macho-thing. Anyhoo - this guy went in one night full of the usual bravado; "Hottest you can provide! Do your worst!"
It must've taken him two hours to eat this ridiculously hot phal - sweat was pouring from his brow but he wouldn't be defeated! The staff applauded as he finished and none of us paid that night. Result!
Except ... He was suffering. He got home and went to bed. He was restless. His girlfriend was worried about him as he was still sweating like a very sweaty thing. He must've fallen asleep though because he woke up in the early hours badly, I mean BADLY needing the loo. Needless to say he didn't make it.
He 'let go' while still in bed - which was a write-off! The insides of his thighs were burnt. His girlfriend's back was burnt. They both (claim) to have blistered their skin with the 'unspent alkaline' which exploded from his arse.
Now whether this story has been exaggerated, glorified and/or adulterated over the years, those of us that tasted that curry, that night, still have nightmares. It was the hottest thing in the whole world.
Ever!
Every time we went back to that curry house for months afterwards the staff would point out my friend to other customers and recount the tale of the inedible meal that he ate. I think just taking the mickey out of the mad English - but they definitely genuinely enjoyed telling the tale.
LordGrover said:
Many ... many years ago, a friend of mine, famous for his curry eating prowess was stitched up by our local curry house (deservedly so really).
We were regulars. Four to six times a week, often twice on a Friday - a quicky early doors on the way home from work, a skin full of beer then a full-on feast at 11 p.m. - Looking back a flipping nightmare bunch really. We'd all enjoy a good spicy curry; madras, vindaloo, meat Bengalore, prawn phal, etc. - the usual macho-thing. Anyhoo - this guy went in one night full of the usual bravado; "Hottest you can provide! Do your worst!"
It must've taken him two hours to eat this ridiculously hot phal - sweat was pouring from his brow but he wouldn't be defeated! The staff applauded as he finished and none of us paid that night. Result!
Except ... He was suffering. He got home and went to bed. He was restless. His girlfriend was worried about him as he was still sweating like a very sweaty thing. He must've fallen asleep though because he woke up in the early hours badly, I mean BADLY needing the loo. Needless to say he didn't make it.
He 'let go' while still in bed - which was a write-off! The insides of his thighs were burnt. His girlfriend's back was burnt. They both (claim) to have blistered their skin with the 'unspent alkaline' which exploded from his arse.
Now whether this story has been exaggerated, glorified and/or adulterated over the years, those of us that tasted that curry, that night, still have nightmares. It was the hottest thing in the whole world.
Ever!
Every time we went back to that curry house for months afterwards the staff would point out my friend to other customers and recount the tale of the inedible meal that he ate. I think just taking the mickey out of the mad English - but they definitely genuinely enjoyed telling the tale.
Hahaahaaaaaa...thats quality story, well explained too! sound like you're legends in that curry house, lets hope the tale gets pasted down thru the genorations, maybe get a plaque! Quality!! We were regulars. Four to six times a week, often twice on a Friday - a quicky early doors on the way home from work, a skin full of beer then a full-on feast at 11 p.m. - Looking back a flipping nightmare bunch really. We'd all enjoy a good spicy curry; madras, vindaloo, meat Bengalore, prawn phal, etc. - the usual macho-thing. Anyhoo - this guy went in one night full of the usual bravado; "Hottest you can provide! Do your worst!"
It must've taken him two hours to eat this ridiculously hot phal - sweat was pouring from his brow but he wouldn't be defeated! The staff applauded as he finished and none of us paid that night. Result!
Except ... He was suffering. He got home and went to bed. He was restless. His girlfriend was worried about him as he was still sweating like a very sweaty thing. He must've fallen asleep though because he woke up in the early hours badly, I mean BADLY needing the loo. Needless to say he didn't make it.
He 'let go' while still in bed - which was a write-off! The insides of his thighs were burnt. His girlfriend's back was burnt. They both (claim) to have blistered their skin with the 'unspent alkaline' which exploded from his arse.
Now whether this story has been exaggerated, glorified and/or adulterated over the years, those of us that tasted that curry, that night, still have nightmares. It was the hottest thing in the whole world.
Ever!
Every time we went back to that curry house for months afterwards the staff would point out my friend to other customers and recount the tale of the inedible meal that he ate. I think just taking the mickey out of the mad English - but they definitely genuinely enjoyed telling the tale.
srebbe64 said:
My kids dragged me to a "Nandos" today - never been to one before. Well on the menu you have four different levels of "spicieness" and, being fond of all things hot and spicy, I went for the top level (Defcon 4).
I have never had such a culinary shock in all my life. I cried real tears. I will NEVER put myself though such agony ever again. Anyone else eaten anything that extreme?
Home made Tom Yum soup in Chang Mai in Thailand, or home made 'Fish' Soup in BarbadosI have never had such a culinary shock in all my life. I cried real tears. I will NEVER put myself though such agony ever again. Anyone else eaten anything that extreme?
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